# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerd-koenen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:19:26.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerd-koenen"
name: "Gerd Koenen"
slug: "gerd-koenen"
description: "Gerd Koenen is a German historian and former communist politician."
tagline: "German historian of the modern age"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerd_Koenen_(2016).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.54
  momentum:             3.369239976062238
  historical:           5.086790666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2478022/"
    handle:    "nm2478022"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://gerd-koenen.eu/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Koenen"
    title: "Gerd Koenen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيرد كوينين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Koenen"
    title: "Gerd Koenen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Koenen"
    title: "Gerd Koenen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Koenen"
    title: "Gerd Koenen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5573491"
    title: "Gerd Koenen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump